Re: dot plots

LTC Jose Stoute (stoute@wrsmtp-ccmail.army.mil)
Mon, 6 Oct 1997 13:14:31 -0400

As a novice user, I find the discussion on data presentation very enlightening.
There seems to be no best way to represent your data and all modalities
advantages and disadvantages. This is very characteristic of science. There is
not just one way to "skin the cat."

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Subject: dot plots
Author: <Marcia.Woda@banyan.ummed.edu> (Marcia Woda) at wrsmtp-ccmail
Date: 9/30/97 3:39 PM

I vote for dot plots too. Even the novice user figures out right away how to
hide populations he doesn't want to show or enhance those he does. We had a
novice user explain in a published paper that an incomplete contour in a plot
was an "artifact" of the contouring program. One could probably represent
data reasonably well in a dot plot first try and take 5 trys to get it right
in a contour.